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J.-PASKE. SPRING GEAR FOR VEHIGLES.

No. 475,304. Patented May 24, 1892 FIEJ.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

JOSEPH FASKE, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE NATIONAL HARD- WARECOMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

SPRING-G EAR FOR VEHICLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 475,304, dated May 24,1892.

Application filed January 2, 1892. Serial No. 418,905- (N'o model.)

To all whom it may concern: piece, and the bars E E are passed throughBe it known that I, JOSEPH FAsKE,acitizen them before they are bent orthe shackleof the United States,and a residentofCincineyes are formed.Upon the outer edges of nati, in the county of Hamilton and State of theboxes are formed projectinglugs f, which,

5 Ohio, have invented certain new and useful when the boxes are securedto the bars a of Improvements in Spring-Gears for Vehicles, the body,bear lightly against the longitudiof which the following isaspecification. nal arms of the bars E E and prevent side The object ofmy invention is to provide motion of the body. The center part of the aninexpensive and reliable device for couptransverse portions of the barsE E are IO ling the vehicle-body to the gear, particularly formed squareor angular, as seen in Fig. 3, to the rear axle and head-block. to fit asquare perforation in the couplings G.

The invention consists in the peculiar COlll- These couplings have eacha perforated web bination and arrangement of parts illustrated g forbolts g which secure the couplings rigin the accompanying drawings, inconnection idly to the ends of an upwardly-arched steel IS with which itwillbe first fully described, and spring H. The spring thus connects thewill then be particularly referred to and transverse portions of thebars E E. Now pointed out in the claims. it will be seen that any Weightin the body Referring to the drawings, in which like which depresses itis resisted by the spring parts are indicated by similar reference-let-H, the tendency being to bend the ends of 20 ters wherever they occurthroughout the Vathe spring around the inner ends of the coupriousviews, Figure 1 is a longitudinal cenlings G. The strength of the springdetertral vertical sectional view of a buggy body mines the weight thebody will sustain. The and gear, the wheels being omitted, embodybarsand spring are compelled to act in uniing my invention. Fig. 2 is aninverted plan son, so that a weight in any part of the body 25 view ofthe same with the front axle rewill depress it about equallyat allpoints. All moved. Fig. 3isa detail view,inverticalsecuneven movementsor rocking of the body tion, of the spring and its coupling upon an whenin use is therefore prevented. enlarged scale. Fig. 4 is an edge andFig. 5 To prevent lateral movement of the coupis a side elevation of oneof the boxes for ling-boxes G upon the barsE E',I cut a trans- 0coupling the body to the gear. These views verse groove 6 across the topof the square are also upon an enlarged scale. portion and countersinkthe top of the coup- The body A, side bars B, rear axle C, front ling totighten the metal over the groove in axle C, and head-block D are all ofordinary the bar. Then by a punch I force a portion construction andsubstantially the same as of the metal of the coupling into the groove 35 now used upon side-bar buggies. in the bar, as seen at g, Fig. 3.

E E are two U-shaped bars or rods, the What I claim, and desire tosecure by Letends of which are formed in perforated bosses ters Patent,is to receive bolts of swinging shackles e, to 1. The combination,substantially as herewhich they are yieldingly coupled to the rearinbefore set forth, with the body and gear, of

40 axle and front h'ead-block,respectively. The the U-shaped bars E E,shackled, respecttransverse portions 9 of the rods EEextend ively, tothe rear axle and head-block, the entirely across the bottom of thebody, the boxes coupling the transverse portions of 9c bends forming thearms being outside of the said bars to the body, the coupling G, rigidlybody sides, so that the body may pass down secured upon the bars, andthe arched spring 45 between the arms without striking them. H, havingits opposite ends secured rigidly The bars E E are journaled in boxes F,which to the couplings. are secured to the side sills a of the body. 2.The combination, with the body and gear, 9 3 These boxes are preferablymade in a single of the U-shaped bars shackled to the rear axle andhead-block, the boxes F for couplin g the bars to the body and havingprojections f bear against the arms of said bars and preventlateralmotion of the body, the couplings 5 G, rigidly secured to thecentral transverse portions of the coupling-bars, and the arched fiatspring H, secured at its ends to the couplings G, substantially as shownand described.

JOSEPH FASKE.

Witn esses:

GEO. J. MURRAY, FRANK S. DAVIS.

